abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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(noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
acanthocephalan | (noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines | Synonyms: spiny-headed worm |
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acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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actinomyxidian | (noun) of or relating to parasites of worms | - |
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actinozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: anthozoan |
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adman | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: advertiser, advertizer |
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aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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(noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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(noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
agnathan | (noun) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | Synonyms: jawless fish, jawless vertebrate |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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alsatian | (noun) breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind | Synonyms: German police dog, German shepherd, German shepherd dog |
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ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
ameban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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amoeban | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoebic, amoebous |
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amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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(noun) cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form | - |
(noun) an airplane designed to take off and land on water | Synonyms: amphibious aircraft |
(noun) a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water | Synonyms: amphibious vehicle |
anatotitan | (noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs | - |
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anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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annelidan | (adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida | Synonyms: annelid |
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antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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(adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
(noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
(noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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anthozoan | (noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed | Synonyms: actinozoan |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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(noun) a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism | - |
antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
(noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
anuran | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: batrachian, salientian |
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(noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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(noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
arctan | (noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc tangent, arctangent, inverse tangent |
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arithmetician | (noun) someone who specializes in arithmetic | - |
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artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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arthropodan | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodous |
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artilleryman | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner |
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artisan | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, craftsman, journeyman |
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ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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ashcan | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, dustbin, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin |
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assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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backwoodsman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: frontiersman, mountain man |
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baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
balagan | (noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) | - |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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ban | (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: prohibition, proscription |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: banning, forbiddance, forbidding |
(noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania | - |
(noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova | - |
(noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: dit, Hart, hartley |
(verb) prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure | - |
(verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) | Synonyms: censor |
(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
(verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: banish |
bandsman | (noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) | - |
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banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
banyan | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banian |
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(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian, banian tree, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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(noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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basilican | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica | - |
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batman | (noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer | - |
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batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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(noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
batsman | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batter, hitter, slugger |
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beadsman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: bedesman |
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bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
(noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
(noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
(verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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bedpan | (noun) a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination | - |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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bellman | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellhop |
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bemoan | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bewail, deplore, lament |
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benzofuran | (noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins | Synonyms: coumarone, cumarone |
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bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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boatman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, waterman |
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bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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(noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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(noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |